Apr. 19 2024
Source Page: G7 foreign ministers' statement in Italy, April 2024Found: stress the need to create conditions for the voluntary, safe, dignified, and sustainable return of all Rohingya
Apr. 04 2024
Source Page: We must not allow Myanmar to become a forgotten crisis: UK statement at the UN Security CouncilFound: are following, with deep concern, the credible reports of forcible detention and recruitment of the Rohingya
Report Apr. 04 2024
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)Found: development 36 Session 2019–21 Number Title Reference 1st ReportHumanitarian crises monitoring: the Rohingya
Report Apr. 04 2024
Committee: International Development Committee (Department: Department for International Development)Found: the First Report of the CommitteeHC 127 2nd Special ReportHumanitarian crises monitoring: the Rohingya
Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) conflict in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and failures to adequately respond to mass atrocities against the Rohingya - Speech Link
2: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) to join the International Court of Justice case brought by Gambia against Myanmar in respect of the Rohingya - Speech Link
3: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Raphael Lemkin’s 1948 convention on the crime of genocide.On other occasions, I have spoken about the Rohingya - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) This includes the example of the ICJ case of the persecution of the Rohingya in Myanmar. - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Bishop of St Albans (Bishops - Bishops)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made to Amnesty International’s claim that the Myanmar authorities’ treatment of Rohingya amounts to apartheid; and what steps they plan to take, if any, in response.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
The UK remains deeply concerned by ongoing discrimination against the Rohingya in Myanmar. We will continue to use our role at the UN Security Council to maintain a spotlight on Myanmar, including the treatment of the Rohingya, the need for unhindered humanitarian access and for the root causes of the conflict in Rakhine State to be addressed. The UK supports efforts to strengthen accountability in Myanmar. We have provided over £600,000 to the UN Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, and established the Myanmar Witness project, in order to collect and preserve evidence of human rights violations, including against the Rohingya.
Mentions:
1: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) support for M23 in the Congo civil war, and I disapprove very strongly of Myanmar’s behaviour towards the Rohingya - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Fraser, Murdo (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) state sponsorship of terrorism by Iran in the middle east and elsewhere; Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya - Speech Link
Mar. 19 2024
Source Page: UN Human Rights Council 55: UK Statement on MyanmarFound: The Rohingya remain acutely vulnerable after suffering decades of systemic discrimination.
Found: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 13 House of Lords, ‘ Written question: Myanmar: Rohingya